How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? It definitely helped to promote water conservation, especially getting into the habit of turning the taps off properly as it made the kids aware of what they need to do.ed

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? we started the daily stamping but it did not continue for long as we had a lot of other things to do.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes it did, I now hear the children telling others off if they are wasting water at the drinking fountains.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“The Water Savers Unit work well with our integrated topic of Wonderful Water. We used your unit to look at water conservation along with where we get our water from and what would happen if we don't change what we are doing with our water ways etc.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? We investigated reticulating water pumps.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

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Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? They liked the stamp but the display wasn't in an obvious place so some students followed it's increasing drops but others lost interest.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? They already knew about water conservation, our school is coastal and rural so it's a daily focus.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“The water savers kit needs a lot of space! There are many posters to put up and stamp so it needs to be accessible for the students. I think there are many benefits to this kit but in hindsight I should have used it in the summer months when water is running out. I live in a rural community and most homes are using tank water, many of my students already know about how much water they use. I started off my technology unit with this kit and had planned for my students to design a water measuring device to track how much water is used every day BUT early on I could see that this wasn't going to grab their attention or interest. I made a huge shift and we designed mini water slides and had a bit of investigation into the Achimedes screw pump. So, to summarise, I didn't get as much out of my kit as I thought I would. I think the kit might work better in an urban school where there isn't such a focus on daily water usage.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Using one cup per day, Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Huge influence as it's about creating an awareness of the behaviours we can change to make a positive impact - children also talked about having full loads in the washing machine and using the eco-setting (as well as using cold water).

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? They loved all of them - huge impact as above

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? The are more aware - and aware of there positive impact.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Fantastic learning. Children were very motivated by stamping the large display on the whiteboard. It created such awareness about water use. The virtual water information was also great - we had excellent discussions about this - children and teachers were shocked with the amount of virtual water used to manufacture fizzy drink and juice, in particular. The fact checking information was also great - there is so much information on the internet, all of which needs triple checking.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? It brought an awareness to the importance to water and that we all play a part.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Little impact

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? The importance of water to all life.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“Not an engaging or stimulating unit. It was tricky to integrate into our full teaching programme.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, Tap off while brushing teeth

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? We used this within digi tech asa base to learn facts and gather information and then share this with an audience through the use of stop motion animation. It gave the kids a focus but also something they were excited to tell me more about what they had been doing differently at home, when they saw me the following week.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

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Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Unfortunately I didn't use this as I don't see them everyday however they did take these to use as a reminder and they could sign them off themselves.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? They seemed very positive to make a change and share their learning with others.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“I was trialling this kit in a new context as I moved from my own class of 30 to a technology teacher role working with 5 different classes per cycle. I was easily able to take the resource and adapt it to use within the tech class. The resources and tools included were straight forward for the students to use to gather data as well as gain information quickly.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Choose water instead of juice / fizzy, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? When the family got involved the influence was more. If it carries on it would make a huge difference. We went into where water comes from, the water cycle, what lives in the water and pipe systems too.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

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Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? We could have done this better. At this point we branched off into inquiry groups.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Yes

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“It was great to integrate into our wai water topic. Looking at what we use and what we could save was really helpful. Kids liked the maths aspect to it, collecting, analysing etc”

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Posted 1 year ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

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Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Students are more likely to turn the tap off while brushing their teeth when we voted.

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? Have not done.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? Will know once completed.

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“We havnt used the whole kit this term as I was away for a long time due to personal reasons. But we unpacked it, talked about different ways to use it in our team meetings. This will be completed in term 4.”

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Posted 1 year ago

How would you rate the overall effectiveness of the classroom resource in teaching water saving habits?

Not effective

Somewhat effective

Significantly effective

Which water saving habit/s were your students most engaged in? Tap off while brushing teeth, 5 minute showers

What influence has this kit had in promoting the longevity of water saving habits and what other water related topics did your students come up with? Rubbish that goes into our river It has grown their awareness of this special resource

Has your students water literacy knowledge improved after using this kit?

Little improvement

Some improvement

Significant improvment

What was the impact of the daily stamping practice in your classroom and which water benchmark did your students find most fascinating? I think overall awareness and appreciation of water and how much is wasted.

How have your students' perceptions of water conservation changed since using the resource and did it foster a sense of responsibility and awareness in your classroom? I think it has changed and improved. Most will now say something if seen to be wasting water. Rubbish still an issue they complain about but don’t seem to make the direct connection …, yet

On a scale of 1-10, how involved would you say families were at supporting this learning at home?

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“The kids were engaged and used this to then develop there own investigations around our community.”

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Posted 1 year ago

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